“Modern emigration is different in that young people know that they want to come back and be more equipped for the modern Ireland.

“We need to be a country that these young people want to come back to and that’s the challenge for the rest of us.”

The former President also told her audience of her upset regarding the recent surge in youth suicides.
She said: “I find it very, very distressing that so many young people in Ireland don’t feel that sense of hope in themselves, that sense of potential.”